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Historical Event(s)
– George Washington delivers the first State of the Union address in New York, New York.
– The first boat specializing as a lifeboat is tested on the River Tyne.
– Rhode Island becomes the last of the original United States’ colonies to ratify the Constitution and is admitted as the 13th U.S. state.
– The United States enacts its first copyright statute, the Copyright Act of 1790.
– The District of Columbia is established as the capital of the United States after signature of the Residence Act.
– The very first U.S. patent is issued: to inventor Samuel Hopkins for a potash process.
– The first US Census is conducted.
– Warriors of the Miami tribe under Chief Little Turtle defeat United States troops under General Josiah Harmar at the site of present-day Fort Wayne, Indiana, in the Northwest Indian War.
– Edmund Burke publishes Reflections on the Revolution in France, in which he predicts that the French Revolution will end in a disaster.
– Discovery of the Aztec calendar stone.
Who Were Born On ?
– Per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom, Swedish poet (d. 1855)
– Ludwig Emil Grimm, German painter and engraver (d. 1863)
– Ludwig Immanuel Magnus, German mathematician (d. 1861)
– Jules Dumont d'Urville, French explorer (d. 1842)
– Ferdinand Raimund, Austrian playwright (d. 1836)
– Ferenc Kölcsey, Hungarian poet and politician (d. 1838)
– William Wentworth, Australian explorer and politician (d. 1872)
– John Ross, Chief of the Cherokee Nation (d. 1866)
– Alphonse de Lamartine, French writer (d. 1869)
– King Leopold I of Belgium (d. 1865)